Giselinde Kuipers Associate professor Dept of sociology & anthropology University of Amsterdam Norbert Elias Professor in the Sociology of Long-Term Processes Erasmus University Rotterdam

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	Giselinde Kuipers is associate professor of sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and a member of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR). She also holds a (part-time) endowed chair at Eramus University Rotterdam: the Norbert Elias Professorship in the Sociology of Long-term processes, funded by the Norbert Elias Foundation. She studied cultural anthropology at the University of Utrecht, and received her PhD in sociology from the University of Amsterdam in 2001. Before taking up her current positions, she worked at the department of communication studies at the University of Amsterdam, spent a year as visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (USA), and worked as a researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam.   She has published in the fields of cultural sociology, the sociology of humor, media studies, and cultural globalization/ transnational culture. Much of this research is comparative; Giselinde has done research in several European countries as well as the US. In 2006, she published Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke, comparing Dutch and American humor styles. From 2004 to 2009, she has been working on a research project called "The Globalization of Humor",  funded by a Veni grant from the innovative research program of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).  She is currently working on a book about this project provisionally titled Comedy and Hegemony (but this title may well change..). In May 2010, Giselinde Kuipers will start a new 5-year research project called "Towards a comparative sociology of beauty: The transnational modelling industry and the social shaping of beauty standards in six European countries". This project is funded with an Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). More information about the project can be found here (abstract) and here (press report). Giselinde Kuipers teaches courses on social theory and cultural and urban sociology at the department of sociology and  the Graduate School for Social Sciences, both at the University of Amsterdam. She is member of the editorial boards of the Dutch sociological journal Sociologie and of Humor: international journal of humor research; and former board member of the Dutch Sociological Association (NSV) and the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHSS).  She is affiliated with the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication, and Culture (ERMeCC) and the Center for Rotterdam Cultural Sociology (CROCUS). Also, she regularly writes columns for Sociologisch Mokum, the magazine of Amsterdam sociology students.